W3C Tutorial (12): W3C Soap Activities

Web Services is related to application-to-application communication. SOAP is an XML-based communication protocol between Web Services.

SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a platform- and language-neutral lightweight communication protocol, allowing programs to communicate over standard Internet HTTP.

To learn more about SOAP, read our SOAP tutorial. SOAP 1.1

In May 2000, SOAP 1.1 was recommended in a record to W3C (by developers: IBM, Lotus, Microsoft, and Userland) as a protocol for exchanging information in a distributed environment.

The W3C SOAP 1.1 document is only a record of discussion (Note). The release of this record does not represent any degree of recognition by W3C. SOAP 1.2

The XML Protocol working group for W3C is currently working on SOAP 1.2

The first working draft was published on 17 December 2001.

SOAP 1.2 was released as the W3C Recommendation Standard on 24 June 2003. W3C SOAP specifications and timelines specification Draft/Proposal recommend SOAP 1.2 Primer 24 June 2003 SOAP 1.2 Primer SE April 27, 2007 SOAP 1.2 Messaging 24 June 2003 SOAP 1.2 Messaging 27 June 2007 SOAP 1.2 Messaging 27 June 2007 SOAP 1.2 Adjuncts 24 June 2007 SOAP 1.2 Test Collection 27 June 2007 SOAP 1.2 Test Collection 27 June 2007 SOAP 1.2 Attachments 8 June 2004 SOAP 1.2 Email Bindings 3 July 2002 SOAP 1.2 Normalization 8 October 2003 SOAP 1.2 Serialization 8 June 2004 Web Services Addressing 1.0 - Core 9 May 2006 Web Services Addressing 1.0 - SOAP 9 May 2006 W3C Reference

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